Enrique Cañizares

Enrique Cañizares is a Partner of RBB Economics based in RBB’s Madrid office. He has been working as an economic consultant since 2000. He specialises in all aspects of competition economics, in particular mergers, Article 101 and 102 investigations, and antitrust damages litigation. His expertise also spans to State aid and regulatory and intellectual property issues. He has provided expert testimony before national and international courts of justice and arbitration in a wide array of cases.

He has advised private sector clients, antitrust authorities and regulators in different jurisdictions, including the European Commission, Spain, and several Latin America countries. Enrique has also provided expert testimony in a wide array of cases before national and international courts of justice and arbitration, including the EU General Court.

Enrique has advised clients in merger cases notified to the European Commission and the national authorities of Spain and other EU countries. His merger control experience comprises some of the most important Phase II investigations in Spain, including Endesa/ lberdrola, Gas Natural/Endesa, Sogecable/Via Digital, Leroy Merlin/Aki, National Express/ Continental, Telecinco/Cuatro, JCDecaux/ Cemusa and Schibsted/Milanuncios, as well as EU cases such as Aceralia/Arbed/Usinor, Nestle/Ralston Purina and Cochlear/Oticon. He has also been involved in Phase I investigations, including Juste/Justesa Imagen, Glo Bidco/ Mallinckrodt, Pigments/Negocio Ferro and Karnov/TR España/WK España in Spain and RhoneZodiac/Fluidra and Telefónica/Prosegur/Prosegur Alarmas España in the EU.

Enrique’s recent experience also includes a number of Article 101 investigations related to information exchanges and horizontal cooperation agreements in different EU jurisdictions. In Spain, he has been involved in many investigations of the national authority, and/or in the subsequent court proceedings, including those concerning cigarettes, textbook publishing, courier services, road maintenance, real state, radiopharmaceuticals, television advertising, software development and maintenance, bus transport or corrugated cartonboard. In the EU, he advised Brussels Airlines and TAP in the European Commission’s investigation into the parties’ codeshare agreement in the Brussels-Lisbon route.

Enrique is also very active in the field of litigation. His recent experience includes antitrust damages cases following Article 101 and 102 decisions of the Spanish authority in the fuel distribution, raw milk, car distribution, power cables, adult incontinence products, envelopes, decennial insurance and telecommunications sectors, and of the European Commission in the trucks and rechargeable lithium-ion batteries sectors. He has also been involved in other court and arbitration cases involving complex economic issues.